The way Kansas does their middle school wrestling is a shame. Splitting the season with basketball does nothing more than further deplete the number of potential wrestlers who will go out. The major issue is the ability of different leagues to decide whether they will wrestle early, or late in the season. By going late, it ruins the ability of kids to participate in clubs until very late in the club season. The choice, reduces the number of possible matches middle schoolers will get due to finding other schools going when they do.

But the biggest hurdle to make any changes regarding anything in this forum is that a large margin (I would modestly suggest 85-90%) of the state's ADs are basketball guys. I am not trying to start the BB vs WR argument, but these guys truly: 1) Don't understand the sport; 2) Don't really care to; 3) Will not suggest any changes if they believe that in some way they will negatively effect BB...Period. I have been in those meetings. Additionally, very few changes are proposed by the WCA. And when they are, coaches aren't doing a good job of discussing/convincing/explaining how and why the changes are good for kids to their admin.

This is a systemic issue. We all own some of the blame. At some point we have to get organized and put together a prioritized Master Plan of what needs to be changed, to get the changes we whine about on here to take place. Use the system in place the way it was intended and quit blaming KSHSAA for everything. 'They' (KSHSAA) didn't write the rules, school ADs and Administrators did.

That is where we have to start.